Who Was Frederick Douglass? (Who Was?)
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$5.99
Publication Date: December 26th, 2014
Publisher:
Penguin Workshop
ISBN:
9780448479118
Pages:
112
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Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave. He was so impressive that he became a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, as well as one of the most famous abolitionists of the nineteenth century.